Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-01-15
EAsTERN AND FOREnGx NEWS.


Twelve thousand marriages occurred in
New York last year.
The losses by fire in this country during
1886 will figure up about $4,000, 900.
Cold weather has been experienced gener.
ally throughout the Republic Of Mexico.
The yield Of gold in Victoria, Australia,
was 80, 900 ounces less in 1886 than in 1855.
Emin Bey has freed from the slave trade
aprovince containing 10, 900 900 inhabitants.
The Dominion Government anticipates a
great influx Of immigrants to the Northwest
this year.
A New Haven, Conn, man has brought
suit for $1,000 damages against a widow
who Tilted him.
A gang Of horse -swindlers, supposed to be
hailing from Philadelphia, are operating ex-
tensively in Boston.
The Spanish Government will ask for
means to build forts along the Mediterranean
coasts and at Cadiz.
II Lord Colin Campbell is refused a new
trial Of his divorce case he will appeal to
the House Of Lords.
The depression in the p.building inter.
ests Of Maine has not been SO great for ten
years as during 1886.
The earnings of Sing Sing Prison for De-
cember were sr7,433; expenditures, $I4,433,
leaving profit of $1,000.
1t is said that the area Of winter wheat in
the Eastern States is decreasing and the area
Of spring wheat increasing.
Marie Colombier, who wrote up Sara
Bernhardt, is in financial straits, and has
been sold out of house and home.
The Yankton, D. t., ladies have been
publicly notified not to wear big hats at the
winter lecture course in that town.
After long period, in which only girl
babies were born, Bismarck, D. T., now re.
joices in the birth Of male infant.
A woman in Bridgeport, Conn.,, last week
while cutting bread, brought to sight from
the middle Of the loaf a set of teeth.
The Suez Canal will be ready in Febru
ary for night traffic through its entire length,
Vessels are 10 be provided with electric
lights.
A convention has been signed between the
Governments Of Belgium and Holland fol
the suppression of the abominable traffic in
young women.
Central Illinois is suffering from an exten.
sive and serious water famine. Farmers are
hauling water and driving their cattle long
distances to drink.
Nine. Nevada Palmer has gone with her
baby to Italy to pass the winter. She and
Marie Van Zandt sang together in an English
church in Paris recently.
A. E. B. Sparrow, from London, sunk
$500 in bogus cattle company at Las
Vegas, and recently killed himself because
he had no means Of support.
Lady Colin Campbell has resumbed her
charitable work at London, appearing and
singing as formerly at Cottage Mission Hall.
An immense crowd assembled. One-third
got inside and the rest staid outside and
cheered.
The feeling in Newark, N. J., is so in
tense against a dozen Chinese laundryinen
who have located there, that they have been
advised by their lawyers to cut of their
ques to sllay it.
The 81, 500 mortgage on the house Of Mrs.
Wittrock, the mother of the Adams Express
robber, has been lifted. The removal of the
mortgage was, according to Frank Wittrock,
the object he had in view when he commit.
ted the robbery.
Delegate Haley of Idaho, introduced a
bill in the lower House Of Congress this
week disiranchising and denying the right
to hold public lands in the Territory to per
sons who practice bigamy. polygamy or un.
lawful cohabitation.
Miss Bessie w. White, graduate in phar.
macy at the Michigan University, who was
denied a certificate to practice by the Ken.
lucky authorities, because she is a woman.
has been ordered certificate by Judge Of
the Court Of Appeals.
A Utica firm has made rope thirty fee,
long with which Mrs Druse. the murderess.
will be hanged. II she hangs at all. 1t is
FIVE. eighihs Of an inch thick, made of 6is
strands of shoethrcad and is almost as strong
as a wire rope Of that size.
During a murder trial the other day in
Paris one of the lawyers in addressing the
Court accused the reporters of romancing
and falsifying their accounts. and before he
left the room the newspaper men gave him
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